inner city
Example Sentences
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“I was in the inner city, I’m not going to shy away from that,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
The old powers from the inner city — Crenshaw, Dorsey, Jefferson, Locke and Fremont — experienced big changes in demographics.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2026
Handsworth and other inner city areas have been worst affected in recent years by a lack of investment, Mr Connell says, "disproportionately hitting the areas which already had problems around poverty and housing stock".
From BBC • Oct. 12, 2025
Maverick Carter, a longtime friend and business partner of both James and Schottenstein who runs an entertainment company, describes meeting Schottenstein as “a young African-American kid from the inner city of Akron, Ohio.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025
According to one study, during a twelve-year period, the number of people returning from prison back home to “core counties”—those counties that contain the inner city of a metropolitan area—tripled.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
